Chapter 296: Yinzhou
"Where is the messenger of our Great Song?" Yue Fei thought for a moment and said suddenly.
Previously, these Khitans said that they were invited by the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty to come, and since this is the case, they must have met the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty! However, now all he sees is the Khitans!
"Your country's messenger is here!" Jeremi.
At that moment, Yelu Yilie clapped his hands, and saw several Khitans walking over with a stretcher.
On the stretcher lay a man with a thick quilt and clothes, and his face was covered. I saw that those Khitans uncovered the quilt a little, and a Han face appeared in front of Yue Fei.
The appearance of the Han people is very different from that of the Khitans, and they are relatively much more delicate and can be recognized at a glance.
Seeing this Han man, Yue Fei nodded slightly.
"You are General Yue!" The Han man looked unusually haggard, his face was pale, his lips were chapped, and his eyes were bloodshot, and he struggled at the moment.
"It's Yue Fei!" Yue Fei nodded.
"General Yue, I am a soldier of the Intelligence Department, I left Wugong County a year ago, and then I went all the way to the northwest! I walked through more than a dozen deserts, passed through countless Gobi regions, and it was not until I found the tribe of the Khitans thousands of miles away! Now Yelu Dashi is the Khitan Great Khan, I saw him, handed over His Majesty's credentials, Yelu Dashi is willing to cooperate with us, he sent his eldest son over! On the way, I was sick with a cold wind, and I couldn't afford to ......," the warrior coughed violently as he spoke, and it took a long time to stop.
His hand was now outstretched, holding the gold medal from the Intelligence Department in his hand, as well as a reply from Yelu Dashi.
"In addition to me, three other comrades died in the desert! They will never come back! The warrior gasped.
Yue Fei had already hurriedly held him down, and Yue Fei's internal force had been continuously sent into this warrior's body. Soon, a hint of ruddy luster appeared on the warrior's face. Yue Fei could see that there were almost no pieces of flesh on this warrior's body, and there were bones everywhere, which looked extremely terrifying.
Yue Fei was in tears.
Over the past few years, the whole country has been working hard to recover the Central Plains. In order to find Yelu Dashi, the Military Aircraft Department and the General Staff Headquarters sent hundreds of soldiers back and forth, but few soldiers have not returned until now. I'm afraid that the only person who can see Yelu Dashi with his own eyes is this warrior in front of him.
Historically, Yelu Dashi has fled to the area of Uzbekistan in later generations, where it is very far away from Guanshan, and it is possible to see Yelu Dashi and find the Khitan people who fled from Liao.
Now Yelu Dashi has become the leader of the Khitans, but he has lost all his land, and he is no longer called "emperor", but "Khitan Khan".
Yelu Dashi is also bent on recovering the country, but he has no strength to restore the country at all. Over the years, he has been hiding from the pursuit of the Jin Kingdom, and he has accumulated strength in the distant grasslands, but unfortunately his strength is still too far away from the Jin Kingdom!
It wasn't until the soldiers from the intelligence department arrived that Yelu Dashi felt that the hope of recovering the country appeared, so he sent people to come.
At that moment, Yue Fei read Yelu Dashi's reply, and he read the national letters of the Khitans brought by Yelu Yilie and others, etc., and at this time, his heart was completely relieved.
"General Yue, you are going all the way north, what are you going to do? As far as I know, the strength of Western Xia has been greatly damaged, and it is impossible to threaten you, are you here to deal with the Jurchens? Jereil asked at this moment.
The snow was falling, and in the heavy snow, the cavalry team could not be seen at a glance, and it looked extremely large! At this moment, Yelu Yilie was also secretly surprised, the Khitans had also confronted the Han people for more than a hundred years, but it was the first time to see such a cavalry team from the Han people! The Han people lost the sixteen states of Yanyun and the Hetao area of Xixia, and since then there is no place to raise horses, and the Han people are no longer qualified to form cavalry! Now it seems that the Han people have gained great benefits in the war with the Western Xia, which is why this cavalry appeared!
"Not bad! The Jurchen has organized hundreds of thousands of troops in China, and they are about to go south, threatening the safety of our Great Song Dynasty! We are here to go north and stop the Jurchen army! Yue Fei said.
"That's great! I was ordered by my father to visit the emperor of your country and discuss with the emperor about sending troops together! I didn't expect your country to send troops now, but now it's impossible for me to inform my father! Jeremiah said.
Yue Fei frowned slightly, if he could contact the Khitans earlier, and he could cooperate with the Khitans earlier, then the war situation would be much more favorable than now. Although the Liao State was destroyed, the number of soldiers and horses fleeing from the Khitan people was not large, and the total number of soldiers and horses taken away by Yelu Dashi was only 30,000 or 40,000, and the people taken away were only 600,000, but the Khitan people were in the northwest position, if they went south, they could surprise and threaten the safety of Huining Mansion, the capital of the Jin State, and the Jin State would not dare to go south unscrupulously. It's a pity that they have only now made contact with the Khitans.
It takes more than two or three months to get from Guanshan to Uzbekistan in distant Central Asia, and with the traffic conditions of this era, I am afraid it will take half a year! It's been almost a year! That can still smoothly pass through the countless deserts and grasslands, and there will be no obstacles and setbacks in the middle.
"Our army is going north at once! You can go south to see my Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty! However, even if you go south, you may not be able to see it now, and Your Majesty may no longer be in Guanshan now. Yue Fei said lightly.
"General Yue, I haven't finished my words yet! It's impossible for us to join you, but we've already made contact with our people when we come halfway through! Our people are oppressed by the Jurchens, life is worse than death, and they have endured it to the extreme! Now in the Shangjing and Zhongjing areas, our clansmen are brewing a rebellion! It's just that our people are afraid that their strength will be insufficient, so they have not dared to cause trouble! If the general really goes north to fight the Jurchens, the battle situation is favorable, and our clansmen in Shangjing and Zhongjing will immediately rise up and respond to the general! I'll send someone to contact them!" Also, many of our clansmen have been broken into the Jurchen army, and we can also find a way to contact those people in the Jurchen army! General Yue, I will send others south to meet His Majesty the Emperor with the letter of state, and I will go north with the general to contact the clansmen at any time. Jeremiah said.
"Really?" Yue Fei said in disbelief.
"Nature is true! It's about my Khitan restoration, how dare I talk nonsense? Jeremiah said.
"God help me!" Yue Fei looked up to the sky and roared, and his heart was overjoyed.
If what Jereil said is true, then there will be much more hope for confronting the Jurchens.
At present, Yelu Yilie explained in detail the current situation of the Khitans in the Jin Kingdom, including some leaders of the Khitans, how they contacted each other, their preparations for rebellion, and so on! Yue Fei listened to it, and his heart was even more happy!
The army is still moving forward, only Yue Fei and the others stay here, Yue Fei thought for a while, and immediately ordered a hundred soldiers to escort the rest of the Khitans towards Yan'an Mansion, and when they arrived at Yan'an Mansion, Li Xianzhong would naturally entertain them, and naturally take them to the Wugong County Staff Headquarters! And Yue Fei himself continued to move forward with Yelu Yilie.
The further north you go, the heavier the snow falls, and the deeper the snow gets!
By the afternoon, the snow on the wasteland was half waist-deep! Under such circumstances, Yue Fei first sent people to explore the road in front, and the 110,000 troops in the back closely followed the people in front of him! The cold wind howled, blowing on people's faces like knives, and in such a situation, the army still did not stop in the slightest! Still moving forward! They had dismounted from their horses and pulled their horses forward.
Yelu Yilie followed Yue Fei, and at first he looked down on the Han army! He was educated since he was a child, the Han people are the worst armed race in the world, the Han soldiers are unusually lazy and slack, and the Han people do not know the generals and generals in the army! However, what he saw and heard at this moment, Yelu Yilie was shocked in his heart! With such a big snowstorm, even their Khitans will stop, but this Han army is still moving forward!
"In just over ten years, my Liao Kingdom perished, the Song Dynasty also lost half of the country, and the two emperors of the Song Dynasty were captured by the Jurchens! But after all these tribulations, the nation seems to have undergone some changes! We can no longer underestimate this nation! In the future, even if they can really restore the country, the Han people will still be the enemy! Jereil said secretly.
He has been educated by Yelu Dashi since he was a child, and his vision is not trivial, and the strength of their Khitan people is weak at the moment, but he still has the ambition to restore the country, and he is also preparing for the Khitan restoration at any time.
The army continued to trek forward until late at night, when they found a shelter from the wind, and then stopped to rest.
Countless bonfires were lit up on the vast snowfield, and soldiers were lighting fires for cooking.
Yelu Yilie sat beside Yue Fei at this moment and said, "General Yue, I see that all of your troops are light cavalry. Of your 100,000 troops, few of them have heavy armor? I heard my father say that the Great Song Dynasty has always been wealthy, is it because of the Jurchen invasion, you Great Song Dynasty also lost all your wealth, and you can't even wear heavy armor? ”
In this era, all cavalry wore heavy armor, and it was not until the appearance of Genghis Khan that there were pure super-large-scale light cavalry battles of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.
When Zhao Chen first captured Guanshan, he obtained tens of thousands of war horses from the Jurchens, and the forbidden army once formed 20,000 cavalry, which were still traditional cavalry at that time, wearing heavy armor. It was not until the end of the Western Xia War that the pure light cavalry began to be organized in the forbidden army, including the 20,000 veterans who had been also light cavalry.
The mobility of light cavalry is far superior to that of heavy cavalry, which is conducive to long-distance combat and is more conducive to the realization of strategic operations, and can appear in the enemy's rear by surprise, disrupt the enemy's strategic deployment, make the enemy take care of one thing and lose the other, and destroy the enemy on this basis. At that time, Genghis Khan's great detour strategy came from countless light cavalry, relying on his genius-like command to continuously destroy the enemy army.
And Yue Fei "copied" all this, but this army was still formed for a short time and did not have many military exploits.
At this moment, Yue Fei just smiled faintly and said, "We have won countless war horses from the Western Xia people, but we can't equip the army with so many battle armors in a short period of time!" ”
Yue Fei was also telling the truth, the Battle of Western Xia had just ended for more than half a year, and the armor of the cavalry was very different from the armor of the infantry, and it was impossible to prepare so many cavalry armors.
Yelu Yilie nodded, and then suddenly.
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The next day, when the sky was dark, Yue Fei's army continued to go north.
The road was unusually desolate, and there were hardly many people to be seen, not even wild beasts, in such winters.
The army did not rest until late at night every day, and sometimes it could not find a place to shelter from the wind, so the army did not even rest at night, but continued to move forward.
Until the eighteenth day of the first month, the army came to Yinzhou City in the east of Western Xia.
It was originally occupied by the Dangxiang people for more than 100 years, but it was reoccupied by the Han people after the Western Xia War.
There are more than 2,000 soldiers of the Huanqing Army stationed here, and in addition to these soldiers, there are also countless young people from the production and construction corps.
Since last winter, the General Staff Headquarters began to prepare for the upcoming big war, and countless grains, grass, baggage, siege equipment, and so on have been transported here. Naturally, the young people of the Production and Construction Corps were transporting these, and after they came here, they were ordered to stay and did not leave here! At present, the number of young people in the production and construction corps here has reached 50,000.
Outside, it was snowy, and from a distance, you could only see a white expanse.
However, when the army appeared, countless youths came to the city walls, and they let out a cheer.
They had been informed yesterday that they had been welcoming the arrival of the army from yesterday to today.
This time the army went east, and they were also ordered to follow the army to the east to transport supplies! These young people have long wanted to go to the battlefield, and now their wish has finally come true!
The gate of Yinzhou City opened, and the more than 2,000 defenders had already braved the wind and snow to go out to welcome the arrival of the army!
One of the leading generals rode on his horse and galloped forward.
"Brother Yue!" Far away, his voice had already been heard.
Yue Fei had also single-handedly walked forward at this moment.
"Dong Xian!" Seeing the generals who came to greet him, Yue Fei was overjoyed.
This Dong Xian is Yue Fei's hometown, when Yue Fei served as the Henan envoy, Dong Xian followed Yue Fei to join the rebel army. Later, when the punishment was begging, Dong Xian followed Yue Fei to Hanzhong. After that, Dong first entered the forbidden army, and then Dong first transferred to the Huanqing Army! After the Battle of Western Xia, Dong Xian led more than 2,000 people to garrison Yinzhou!
Now, they're finally seeing each other again!
"Brother Yue!" Dong Xian was pleasantly surprised!
"How is Yinzhou City preparing now? The big war is about to begin! The two of them walked forward together, Yue Fei said.
"The grain, grass and baggage are all well prepared! Supplies from Guanshan, Northwest, and Lingzhou are all transported here! This is enough to support an army of 100,000 for half a year! Dong Xiandao.
"This time it is not just 100,000 troops that have been mobilized, but 200,000!" Yue Fei said.
"Brother Yue, rest assured, our grain and grass will continue to be transported here! In the past two years, the harvest of Guanshan and Sichuan and Shu has been excellent, and we have a lot of grain and grass in reserve, which is enough for a large army to fight! Dong Xiandao.
"That's for the best! Dong Xian, you are strong in martial arts and quite resourceful, you will fight with me this time! Yue Fei said.
This Dong Xian was the main general of the Yuejia Army in history, and he was known as the "Five Tiger Generals" of the Yuejia Army together with Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Xu Qing, and Niu Gao. His talent was undoubted, so Yue Fei was the first to use him after he came here.
"Great!" Dong Xian was overjoyed.
After a while, Zhang Xian, Liu Qi and others also led troops over, and Dong first saluted the two, not to mention it.
The army soon entered the city of Yinzhou.
Yinzhou City is a small city, but fortunately, there are not many residents here, only more than 50,000 young people, so the army can barely squeeze into this city.
At this moment, Yue Fei, Zhang Xian, Liu Qi, Dong Xian and others had already entered the state government, and everyone began to discuss the important matter of attacking the city.